Mue

Mue is a fast, open and free-to-use browser extension that gives a new, fresh and customizable tab page to most modern browsers

Screenshot
Features
Planned Features
Installation
- Chrome
- Firefox
- Chromium
- Opera/Other
Contributing
Credits

Screenshot

Features

Fast and free
Supports multiple browsers
Actively developed and open source
Automatically updating API (no tracking) with new photos, quotes and offline mode
Search bar
Settings - enable/disable various features and customise parts of Mue
Update modal, copy button and more!
Marketplace - download custom photo packs, quote packs, preset settings and themes made by the community!

Planned Features

Please see our roadmap

Installation

A demo of the tab can be found here

Chrome

Chrome Web Store

Firefox

Firefox Add-ons

Edge (Chromium)

~~Microsoft Edge Addons~~ Currently outdated, please use the Chrome Web Store version

Opera/Other

GitHub Releases

Development

Requirements

Git
Node.JS
A suitable browser

Starting

Clone the repository using git clone https://github.com/mue/mue.git
Run yarn or npm i to install all needed dependencies
Run yarn start or npm start to start testing
Code your heart out! (See the sections below for how to build the extension)

Building

Chrome/Edge (Chromium) (Click to expand)

yarn run build or npm run build
yarn run chrome or npm run chrome
Visit chrome://extensions in Chrome
Click Load unpacked (Make sure Developer Mode is on)
Go to the directory containing the built copy of Mue and click ok
Enjoy your new tab!

Opera (Click to expand)

yarn run build or npm run build
yarn run opera or npm run opera
Visit about://extensions in Opera
Click Load unpacked extension... (Make sure Developer Mode is on)
Go to the directory containing Mue and click ok
Enjoy your new tab!

Firefox (Click to expand)

yarn run build or npm run build
yarn run firefox or npm run firefox
Visit about:debugging#addons in Firefox
Click Load Temporary Add-on
Go to the directory containing Mue and click on the manifest.json
Enjoy your new tab!

Other (Click to expand)

Note: To get the full new tab experience, set your browser to open the index.html on startup and tab open!

yarn run build or npm run build
Open the index.html in your browser
Enjoy your new tab!

Credits

Core Team

Maintainers

David Ralph (ohlookitsderpy) - Lead development, photographer

Developers

Alex Sparkes - Name, lead design, photographer

Isaac (Eartharoid) - QA, development, photographer

Wessel Tip - Development

Translators

Wessel Tip - Dutch

Alex Sparkes, Maxime - French

Anders - Norwegian

Pronin Egor - Russian

Vicente - Spanish

Resources

Pexels - Stock photos used for offline mode

Opera Forum - Portions of code to add Opera support

Many thanks to Highholding, Noa Shapira, Roee Lupo, Jeroen, Glasvegas, Anders, Oded Shapira, Jacob Tyrrell and Nikka Lai for letting us use their wonderful photographs.

And finally, a big thank you to all the contributors!

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